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Carlson to interview Piers

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Fox News’ Tucker Carlson will conduct the first major interview with Piers Morgan, the noted doubter of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, on Monday

Fresh from walking off the set of “Good Morning Britain” and fueling the drama that ended with Sharon Osbourne leaving CBS’ “The Talk,” Piers Morgan is sitting down for an interview Monday with Fox News opinion host Tucker Carlson.

It will be the first major interview given by the noted doubter of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, since he quit his “GMB” hosting gig amid a heated discussion about race and the royals on March 9.

The bulk of the chat, which airs Monday afternoon, will appear on “Tucker Carlson Today,” a new video podcast that runs three times a week on Fox Nation, the network’s subscripti­on streaming service. A portion of it will air on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”

Morgan will air his thoughts on the reaction to Meghan and Prince Harry’s CBS interview with Oprah Winfrey and on the current state of media.

In a video Thursday pitching the paperback edition of “Wake Up,” Morgan called his book a “clarion call” for freedom of speech and the right to have an opinion and for the end of “this ridiculous cancel culture.”

“Let’s go back to what made Britain great: The ability to disagree with each other and then go and have a pint in the pub — not try to wreck each other’s lives for a difference of opinion,” he said in the clip.

The British journalist and TV personalit­y was a judge with Osbourne for years on ”America’s Got Talent“and the two are longtime friends. He recently called Osbourne’s ouster from ”The Talk” “a terrible indictment of woke cancel culture bulls*** and the stinking hypocrisy that lies at the heart of it.“

About comments he’d made questionin­g Meghan’s claims of suicidal thoughts and alleged racism in the royal family, Morgan wrote, “I’ve never said a single thing about Meghan Markle that could possibly be construed as racist, either in print or on television.

“The only time I’ve ever mentioned her race has been to repeatedly say how great it was that a biracial woman was marrying into the very white British royal family.”

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 ?? Jonathan Brady / Associated Press ?? British television host Piers Morgan speaks to reporters outside his home in London on March 10 after he quit the “Good Morning Britain” program.
Jonathan Brady / Associated Press British television host Piers Morgan speaks to reporters outside his home in London on March 10 after he quit the “Good Morning Britain” program.

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